Get the best experience and stay connected to your community with our Spectrum News app. Learn More Continue in Browser Get hyperlocal forecasts, radar and weather alerts.Please enter a valid zipcode.SaveRALEIGH, N.C. — Johnny Hackett, owner of Black Friday Market in downtown Raleigh, will be the first to tell you the past year has been…
Get the best experience and stay connected to your community with our Spectrum News app. Learn More Continue in Browser Get hyperlocal forecasts, radar and weather alerts.Please enter a valid zipcode.SaveRALEIGH, N.C. — New businesses in North Carolina are bouncing back after taking a dip during the pandemic, according to the North Carolina Secretary of State’s…
Preview this article 1 minThe retail space was previously home to another local business that closed in December.A locally owned business is moving to another space in Downtown Raleigh that was recently vacated.Copperline Plant Co., a plant shop, is moving from its spot in City Market to the downtown business district. The store is currently…
DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) — Blackout Day 2020 is a movement on July 7 urging people–specifically people of color–not to spend any money, except at Black-owned businesses.According Nielsen, Black spending power in the United States is $1.2 trillion a year; economists say overall US spending is around $35 trillion."Corporations realize that Black consumerism is powerful," said…
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When she launched Triangle Doulas of Color in 2018, what surprised Ste’Keira Shepperson was the amount of pushback she got for identifying her business as minority-focused in the name. But that identity has made all the difference.Naming a business can be harder than writing the business plan. The business name is the first and lasting…
Source: UCG / Getty Source: UCG / GettyLiberation Station, North Carolina’s first Black-owned children’s bookstore, was forced to close after less than a year because of death threats. The clear pattern of a certain demographic doing everything in their power to keep children from reading continues.The store’s grand opening on Juneteenth, 2023, marked a moment…
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